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Well a little while ago I asked for SSH access to my website and forgot about it.

As anyone can see my website does not get updated often. I feel it must being hacked as bluehost my host company sent me an email telling me I am taking up too much space on the SQL server. I don’t think I am using much…

With this issue was a good time to try to learn some SSH. So I learned puttygen and putty. I found that my unix command line skills are lacking… however I was able to set up VIM to a reasonable level. So I can do most of my vim-ish things. Yes I know it is weird to be a VIM/dos hack not a VIM/unix hack… maybe my mac can switch me.

I have been learning VIM for a little while now (about 2 months) but I have started to get serious about it.

For the most part I really like VIM but one thing has really slowed me down. One trick I have always done is cut a word from one place and paste it over top of another. This deletes the 2nd word. But in VIM this didn’t work like it does in windows programs. I finally figured out why. In unix if you highlight something it also copies it to your clipboard. I have VIM set to use unix keyboard layout even though I am in windows. IE “behave mswin” is off. It seems you’d have to be crazy to use “behave mswin” as most help on the web assumes unix style. (well probably mac style I bet.)

These are the setting that make me happy. If you select some text it is like you went in to visual mode (not the wacky select mode).